Tag Archives: GPL

WordPress Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Lloyd

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Culture, Open Source, WordPress | Also tagged 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Free Culture, GNU Public License, Matt Mullenweg, Non-Profit, Open Source, Web Publishing, WordPress, WordPress Foundation, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

GPL Isn’t a Good License for Proprietary Software

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Lloyd

Yesterday, I wrote about the clarification regarding WordPress Themes and the GPL (v2). Daniel Jalkut, who I featured as a personal WordPress Hero earlier this year, wrote one of the most interesting responses to “[WordPress] Themes are GPL, too“. Written … Continue reading →

Posted in GPL | Also tagged Collaboration, Community, Open Source, Participation, Proprietary Software, Software Developers, WordPress | 5 Comments

Commercial WordPress Themes’s PHP Code is GPL 2 Too

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Lloyd

I’m hoping that my boss Matt Mullenweg sharing the legal opinion on “Themes are GPL, too” will put the issue to rest for the majority of the community (emphasis mime):
“PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may … Continue reading →

Posted in GPL, WordPress | Also tagged GPL v2, licensing, Theme Licensing, WordPress, WordPress Themes | 28 Comments

Happy Birthday GNU!

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Lloyd

The GNU Project is 25 years young! And Richard Stallman and crew are working as hard as ever. Thank you!
The GNU Project is most famous for it’s versions of UNIX utilities and the GPL family of licenses. But whatever you … Continue reading →

Posted in GPL, Open Source | Also tagged Free Software Foundation, freedom, GNU Project, Open Source, Richard Stallman, Software, Technology | Leave a comment

Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Lloyd

Six Apart VP Anil’s response today on the official Six Apart blog to my Movable Type Pro Introduction video parody doesn’t surprise me, but where is the link love?

Posted in Opinion, WordPress | Also tagged Anil Dash, Automattic, BuddyPress, CMS, Movable Type, Movable Type Pro, Open Source, Parody, Performance, Plugins, Product Stories, Scalability, Six Apart, Social Graph, social networking, Web Security, WordPress, WordPress Security | 7 Comments

WordPress Google Summer of Code 2

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Lloyd

The Google Summer of Code is here again. I submitted our WordPress application today. Last year was awesome, and I think this year will be even way better!

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged Automattic, Chris DiBona, Google Summer of Code, gsoc, GSoC2008, Jacob Santos, Leslie Hawthorn, Matt Mullenweg, Mentors, Open Source, Ronald Heft Jr, Students, WordPress, WordPress Partcipants | 3 Comments

Open Source Free Web Site Templates without the Open Source

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Lloyd

http://www.OSWD.org/ – “Open Source Web Design” led by Francis J. Skettino. Free web design templates.
Unfortunately, I like open source in my open source.

Posted in Open Source | Also tagged Andreas Viklund, creative commons, Creative Commons Attribution, Derek K. Miller, Francis J. Skettino, Free Software Definition, Free web design templates, FreeCSSTemplates.org, GPL2, Open Source, Open Source Design, Open Source Web Design, OSWD, themes.wordpress.net, WordPress Themes | 6 Comments

Licensing is the suck!

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Lloyd

As I recently wrote the obvious, “licensing is legal, and legal things are complex”. I should have wrote, licensing is the suck!
When ever I start thinking about licensing and it being the suck, I think to Lawrence Lessig’s keynote presentation … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating | Also tagged A theft of our common culture, bsd, cc, collaborating, copy, copyright wars, create, Create like itâ€™s 1790, creative, creative commons, creativity, eff, fair use, Free Culture, free society, gnu, harm, Help us by writing on the check you send in, I got to go back to my life., If you are explaining, If You Are unwilling to Fight For Your Freedom . . . Yo, innovation, intellectual property, it was nature in 179, license, licensing, nature, no-brainer, Nothingâ€™s changed, Open Source, Open Source Movement, patent, patents, property, rebuilding nature, share, unregulated, unregulated use, What have you done about it, you are losing, You build a common base that other people can build upo | 3 Comments